[SerialICE] Serial output on Winbond W83627HG

[Joseph Smith]

On 03/29/2011 12:48 PM, Joseph Smith wrote:
> On 03/29/2011 09:35 AM, Joseph Smith wrote:
>>
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>> On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:17:35 -0400, Joseph Smith<joe at settoplinux.org>
>> wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:56:19 -0400, Corey Osgood<corey.osgood at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Joseph Smith<joe at settoplinux.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:17:50 -0600, Myles Watson<mylesgw at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:34 AM, Joseph Smith<joe at settoplinux.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:51:23 -0600, Myles Watson<mylesgw at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Any other suggestions?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Have you tried different host frequencies until you don't see
>>> garbage?
>>>>>>>> If you know the default value, you could try it first.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sorry for the ignorance but what do you mean by host frequencies?
>>>>>> Baudrate?
>>>>>> Yes. That's all I meant.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm, the baudrate that works fine with vendor bios is 115200 and that
>> is
>>>>> what I have serialice set to, but I could play with other rates.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could the clock generator between the southbridge and superio be doing
>>>>> something funny to scramble the signal?
>>>>
>>>> Can you send a superiotool dump with the serial ports enabled and
>>>> working? The registers say they're disabled in the one you sent.
>>>>
>>> Wow your right. That is really weird. This board is a little different
>>> anyways with one Winbond W83627HG SuperIO and 4 serial ports....
>>>
>> That is really strange cause I did that superiotool dump connected to the
>> board over serial console. I wonder if there is another chip somewhere
>> that
>> handles the 4 serial ports???
>>
> Ah I am not going crazy :-)
> Looks like on the botton of the board is a fintek F81216DG LPC to 4 UART
> Chip (www.fintek.com.tw/files/productfiles/F81216_V032P.pdf). That is
> why the serial ports are disabled on the SuperIO. This should be
> interesting......got a datasheet to read. Thanks for the help everyone.
>
>
Hmm looks like superiotool supports the chip.. why did it only detect 
superio and not  fintek F81216DG???

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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
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